Fucking boss as places to eat that are also reasonably cheap (vege/vegan).

Good venues/places online to check for punk shows.

Any especially good bars/places to party.

We're also going to be in Osaka for a night or two so if there is any particular night-time entertainment worth hunting down there it'd be good to know.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions about particular Tokyo districts that are especially worth visiting chuck those cunts up in here. I know plenty of you have visited the country and a couple even live there so any good advice for a first-time visitor would be appreciated.

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All good. You mentioned that you want to go and see some gigs, so I'd recommend you sort out some decent earplugs before coming over. Most venues are pretty small, yet have full PA rigs, so it gets loud as fuck!

i have two empty wrappers on either side of me, but none more and i dont know where to get them outside of japan, there is one new asian supermarket i have tried tho, maybe that can be todays mission, if ive gotten paid that is, asian supermarket tour, im out of dumplings too

“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” -Mother Theresa

Make sure you print out a map to get to venues as the can be notoriously hard-to-find. When you're in the general vicinity, be on the lookout for punks on the piss outside from around 6pm. Drinking in public is permitted here.

Shops:

Most of the great shops have closed and are run as distros out of people's apartments these days. A few still exist, however:

Finding veggie food is tough in Japan, but in Tokyo there are tons of decent Indian restaurants. They do the best deals at lunchtimes where you could get a decent meal for around 1,000 yen. A lot of places in Tokyo have lunch buffets where you can eat as much as you can.

Kaitenzushi (revolving sushi) shops usually have quite a few vegetarian options and you can take whatever you want as it comes around. Go for kappa-maki (cucumber roll), shinko-maki (pickled daikon roll) and natto-maki (fermented soybeans roll).

Saizeria is a chain with cheap as Italian food. Many of these are open 24 hours and the have a few vegetarian options like pepperoncino pasta and a bunch of salads.

Freshness Burger are another chain with decent tofu burgers and mexican bean burgers for a reasonable price.

Pretty much all ramen sold in Japanese restaurants is made from pork soup.

I'm not a big fan of the Roppongi area myself (too many sketchy cunts), but it's alright for different kinds of food.

There is a vege/vegan? ramen restaurant inside Tokyo station. I went there a few times with some vegan friends that are living in Tokyo. It's not bad, but I generally prefer my curries/noodles/soups flavored with animal juice.

Hamtown Dave wrote:There is a vege/vegan? ramen restaurant inside Tokyo station. I went there a few times with some vegan friends that are living in Tokyo. It's not bad, but I generally prefer my curries/noodles/soups flavored with animal juice.

Might sound a bit racial, but DO NOT take up offers from nigerians telling you to come drink at their bars. GODZ bar in Shinjuku is pretty funny if you like metal. They just take requests and have just about any metal you can think of. Expensive drinks though.If you wanna get messed up on a budget just buy 9% chu hi or whisky from the convenience stores and drink on the street. So many characters in Shinjuku at night.

Drax wrote:Going to Tokyo soon (probably gonna be spending most of our time around Shinjuku-ku and Shibuya-ku)

whos the lucky guy?

is it your bf Kerry??

We booked us a hostel for eight nights in Tokyo last night. Starting to get butterflies in my penis.

im in japan atm you should really buy a train pass befor you come the shinkansen is the only way to get round the country and tokyo is ok but you really want to go to osaka on a friday night its crazy fun

Definitely agree on the rail pass, it seems expensive but the cost of Shinkansen tickets would add up pretty quick. We ended up doing a bunch of cool stuff we never planned to because we had already paid for unlimited travel for two weeks. Dunno if it's the sort of thing you're into, but fuji-q highland was perhaps the highlight of my trip.